Hi all,
We'll have a BICEP2 team meeting today (Tuesday) from 9-10 am Pacific.
Phone: 1-866-890-3820 (toll: 1-334-323-7229) Passcode:59702175
Walt, could you please take notes?
Thanks to those who emailed analysis reports last night. Please use these reports to
- summarize conclusions drawn from postings/discussions of the *previous* week
- status of work still needed and timeline to compete that thread
- note new postings that require further discussion in pipeline telecon
John
------ 13 Nov 2012 BICEP2 weekly telecon agenda --------
1) Final B2 CMB data reduc czar report [ Walt ]
2) Reports from Pole [ Steff / Zak / ... ]
- From Steff:
- cryo: confirmed LHe adequate for warmup as late as 25 Dec
- firewall replaced
- analysis data SPTR transfer: Steff/Chin Lin have southern end working
- From Zak:
- thermal beammaps now underway, ze choppa, uber choppa data taken
- debugging chop ref
- moon planned Nov 16-19
- revisions to schedule
- B2 RPS: Nov 20-24 (simple repeat of previous)
- B2 sidelobes: Nov 25-30
- B2 off mount as scheduled on Dec 1
3) Final B2 Instrument Characterization postings:
Today let's review what specific results we are looking for on each, and who is responsible for each.
- RPS / Pol angles [ Abby / Colin / ??? ]
- ff beam maps [ Randol / Abby / Chin Lin ??? ]
- sidelobe maps [ Abby / Randol / ??? ]
- dark runs [ lead: Angiola ] posting here
* need results from above before B2 comes off mount! *
- FTS [ lead: Jon, others: Grant, Immanuel, Kirit. ]
- Thermal testing [ Jon lead...anything urgent remaining? ]
* need results from these before B2 warms...target Dec 10? *
4) Analysis status reports
Baseline 2yr data reduction updates [ Walt ]
* El nod goodness of fit cut: any progress in past week? [ Martin, Angiola ]
- urgent!
* Reprocessing data [ Angiola ]
- Needed for scansets with offline NTD cal or tweak_elnods fix
- Angiola has found a few more with possible el nod tweak needed
- Deferred until el nod GOF calcs done
Characterizing non-beam systematics [ Walt / Angiola ] brief!
* relgain mismatch from per-channel abscal [ Walt ]
- In progress: split by season / epoch
- Now feeding into outlier det lists for channel selection
* crosstalk
* magnetic / dark runs [ Angiola ]
* thermal [ Jon ]
Characterizing beam systematics [ Abby (/Randol) ]
Abby just sent a report, redundant with much of what is above...
Data consistency check status report [ Chris (/Randol) ]
report on LAST WEEK's discussion of sim1234 -- some initial post-deproj jack failures.
Other threads deferred this week...